The Best Classics... Ever! |
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Compilation album by Various Artists |
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Released |
November 18, 2005 |
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Genre |
classical |
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Length |
more than 240 min |
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Label |
EMI |
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Various Artists chronology |
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The Best Classics... Ever! series chronology |
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The Best Classics... Ever! is a compilation album released by EMI in late 2005. This compilation contains both short works and excerpts from longer works by renowned classical composers.
Track listing
CD 2
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Eine kleine Nachtmusik, part I: Allegro"
- Johann Strauss II – "On The Beautiful Blue Danube: Waltz, Op. 314" (extract)
- Giuseppe Verdi – "La donna è mobile" (Rigoletto)
- Antonio Vivaldi – "Concerto "L'estate", RV 315, part III: Presto"
- Georges Bizet – "Prelude" (Carmen)
- Maurice Ravel – "Boléro" (conclusion)
- Giacomo Puccini – "Nessun dorma" (Turandot, Act III)
- Léo Delibes – "Dôme épais" (Lakmé, Act I)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23, part I: Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso (opening)
- George Gershwin – "Rhapsody in Blue" (jazz band version – opening)
- George Frideric Handel – "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo) (arr. Craig Leon and Isobel Cooper)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" (Op. 43 – Variation 18)
- Vincenzo Bellini – "Casta Diva" (Norma, Act I)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Canzonetta sull'aria" (Le nozze di Figaro, Act III)
- Giacomo Puccini – "O mio babbino caro" (Gianni Schicchi)
- Franz Schubert – "Ave Maria" (Maria Callas)
- John Williams – "Schindler's List Theme"
CD 3
- Frédéric Chopin – "Mazurkas Op. 59, No. 3 in F sharp minor"
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – "Flight of the Bumblebee"
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – "Allegro Moderato" (Swan Lake)
- Antonio Vivaldi – "Spring (The Four Seasons), part I: Allegro"
- Johann Sebastian Bach – "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048, part I: Allegro moderato"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Le nozze di Figaro" (Overture)
- Jacques Offenbach – "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Barcarolle) (Les contes d'Hoffmann, Act IV)
- Georges Bizet – "Au fond du temple saint" (Temple Duet) (Les pêcheurs de perles, Act I)
- Gustav Holst – "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" (conclusion) (The Planets)
- George Gershwin – "Summertime" (Porgy and Bess)
- Edvard Grieg – "Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, part I: Allegro molto moderato"
- Giuseppe Verdi – "Va, pensiero" (Chorus of Hebrew Slaves) (Nabucco, Act III)
- Izzy – "Suo Gân"
- George Frideric Handel – "Zadok the Priest – Coronation Anthem"
- Georges Bizet – "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Habanera) (Carmen, Act I)
- Johann Sebastian Bach – "Goldberg Variations Aria"
External links
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